1) Eyedrum holds it first Krampus Night with performances by Gutbucket and Zentropy.
2) V-103 and JC Cognac present 4DALOVE at 595 North Event Venue and Lounge.
3) Polvo plays the Earl.
4) Caroline Herring plays Eddie’s Attic.
5) A Christmas Tale opens at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
(Photo by Natascha Rockwin)
FALLING UP: Mathieu Amalric as Henri
In Christmas movies, the spirit of the season inevitably trumps the personal conflicts that bedevil the characters. Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale feels like a yuletide miracle in reverse: Christmas remains in the background, no match for the wrenching problems yet stubborn togetherness of the Vuillard family.
Matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve, the de facto first lady of French cinema) discovers that she has a terminal illness and a transplant may be the only means of saving her. Two possible donors may be her alcoholic, contentious middle son Henri (Mathieu Almaric) and her troubled teenaged grandson Paul (Emile Berling). Any transplant carries the risk of “graft vs. host” disease, in one of the film’s many medical metaphors for the paradoxes of family life. Can’t live with them, can’t live without their bone marrow. (more…)
Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes and CL’s Curt Holman chatting about two foreign films playing this week: Alexander Nevsky and A Christmas Tale.
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